Friday, August 19, 2022

Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 8.19.22

Are You Telling Your Story?

House returns to session September 12, 13, 14

     -- Committee Schedule

Senate returns to session September 19, 20, 21

     -- Committee Schedule

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events

 

TODAY Noon: Virtual. PA Solar Center Webinar: A Brighter Future - Solar Energy For PA Schools; Save Millions, Avoid Energy Cost Spikes.  Noon to 1:15 p.m.


-- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment  [PaEN]


-- Independent Fiscal Office Reports Decline In PA Natural Gas Production For 2nd Quarter In A Row For First Time; But An Increase In New Wells Drilled  [PaEN]


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: State’s Natural Gas Production Drops 2nd Quarter In A Row


-- PA PUC: Cost Of Natural Gas Provided By Major Utilities In PA Increased As Much As 154% Over Last Year  [PaEN]

 

-- Warren Times: National Fuel Gas To Increased Cost Of Natural Gas 39.7% Effective Aug. 1

 

-- DEP Notice Suspending Enforcement Of Vapor Leak Monitoring For Small Gasoline Storage Tanks In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Areas


-- York County Conservation District Announces Annual Conservation Award Recipients  [PaEN]


-- Penn State Students Aiding Project To Reduce Plastics In Tree Grow Tubes To Support Chesapeake Bay Cleanup


-- DEP Invites Comments On Draft NPDES General Permit For Discharges Of Stormwater Associated With Industrial Activity (PAG-03)


-- DEP Invites Comments on Draft State Water Plan Update


-- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 19 RiverWatch Video Report


-- Governor’s Executive Board Notice Of Reorganization Of The Department Of Environmental Protection


-- PA Capital-Star: Poll: Environmental Issues Front And Center For PA Voters In 2022 


-- WESA: New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law Gives Pittsburgh Region Climate Fund, More Jobs, Cleaner Air And Hope 


-- Pittsburgh Business Times: Why Shell, U.S. Steel Are Eyeing A Clean Energy Hub, And How They’ll Get There


-- Seneca Resources Achieves Top Emissions Performance Certification Of Its Natural Gas Production Under MiQ Standard  (Check Seneca Resources’ DEP compliance record)


-- House Environmental Committee Aug. 30 Hearing On Threats Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks, Solar Flares Pose To Electric Grids   [PaEN]


-- DEP Holds Aug. 31 Virtual Meeting On Preventing Power Outages, Enhancing Resilience Of Electric Grids [Related To Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding]


-- TribLive Guest Essay: PA Communities Must Consider The Impact Of Warehousing Growth - Kutztown University Professor


-- EPA Calls For Nominations For 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, Deadline Sept. 28


-- DEP Now Accepting Recycling Implementation Grant Applications, Deadline Oct. 28


-- August 20 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available


-- DCNR Announces $1.5 Million Improvements At Seven Tubs Recreation Area In Luzerne County


-- Scranton Times: DCNR Secretary Announces $1.5 Million In Improvements At Seven Tubs Recreation Area


-- DCNR Updates Cost Of Ohiopyle State Park Whitewater Launches


-- Republican Herald: Schuylkill River Trail Expansions In The Works


-- Feature: 'Every Trail Sparks A Story' - Jonas Mountain Nature Preserve, Monroe County; Sept. 24 Fall Colors Hike - By Carol Hillestad, For Pocono Heritage Land Trust  [PaEN]


-- Inquirer: In Search Of Pennsylvania’s Coolest Places In The Dog Days Of Summer


-- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: PA Fishing Fees Increased For First Time In 17 Years


-- Scranton Times: PA Natural Heritage Program Annual Report Released


U.S. Senate Climate, Energy Bill

 

-- WESA: New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law Gives Pittsburgh Region Climate Fund, More Jobs, Cleaner Air And Hope 

 

6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables

[There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay]

 

-- Bloomberg: Natural Gas Heading For Longest Run Of Weekly Price Increases In Europe

 

-- Financial Times: Middle East Countries Set For $1.3 Trillion Oil, Natural Gas Windfall, Says IMF

 

American Rescue Plan Funding

 

-- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.  What’s Your Community Doing?

 

Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

 

-- DEP Holds Aug. 31 Virtual Meeting On Preventing Power Outages, Enhancing Resilience Of Electric Grids [Related To Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding]


PA Politics - Everything Is Connected

-- Inquirer: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Said Islam Is Not Compatible With The Constitution In 2018 Radio Interview

-- Inquirer: Florida Governor Campaigning For Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano In Pittsburg, But A Multifaith Group Is Pushing Back

-- LancasterOnline: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Declines LNP Debate Invitation Citing ‘Inflammatory’ Coverage And ‘Hack’ Reporters

-- Inquirer: Mastriano Critics Become Mastriano Boosters While Avoiding The Name Mastriano

-- PA Capital-Star: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano’s Education Funding Plan Would Devastate PA’s Public Schools, Advocates Say

-- WITF: FBI Subpoenaed Several PA Republican Lawmakers And We Still Don’t Know Why

-- PennLive: Cumberland County Woman Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol Approved For PA Renaissance Faire Outing By Court

-- Post-Gazette: Mercer County Man Accused Of Threatening FBI Agents Emerged From Home With Assault Rifle Before Arrest, FBI Says

-- TribLive: Mercer County Man Charged With Crimes Related To Assault On U.S. Capitol To Remain In Custody, Accused Of Threatening FBI Agents On Gab

-- TribLive/AP: Republican Candidate For Congress Says U.S. Attorney General ‘Should Be Executed’

-- WPost: Current Republican Maryland Governor Calls Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mentally Unstable

-- PennLive: Ex-President’s Advisor Steve Bannon Suggested Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Fetterman Is ‘Satanic’

-- Erie Times: Fetterman Unveils 5-Point Accountability Plan If Elected To U.S. Senate

-- WPost: PA U.S. Senate Race No Longer A Tossup As Fetterman Memes Zero In On Dr. Oz’s Wealth

-- TribLive: Reports: Republicans Cut Ad Spending In PA U.S. Senate Race

-- Inquirer: Nearly All PA Counties Apply For Election Money, Are Worried About The Rules For Using It

-- Reading Eagle: Fmr Berks County Elections Director Says Commissioners Wanted Her To Be ‘Scapegoat’

-- MCall - Paul Muschick: Want To Improve Election Integrity In PA?  Philadelphia Offers A Great Model To Adopt

-- PA Gaming Control Board Reports Gaming Revenue For July - $429 Million

-- TribLive: PA Casino Revenue Jumps To $429 Million In July After Late Spring Lull

-- Post-Gazette Editorial: Pittsburgh Needs A Youth-Driven Anti-Violence Task Force

-- PennLive: Penn State Reports Monkeypox Case At Main Campus

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[Posted: August 19, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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